Fruity Flourish a.k.a candy

When I want to reflect on how blessed we are as humans,as God's special creation and children,I praise Him as He took His time to create us no doubt, shaping our spirit , soul and bodies......every strand on our hair and skin.....every cell....every atom.....saved the best for the last! He made everything for our disposal, from the animals on land to those in the sea, those in the airwaves not left out.....to the plants far and wide. In counting what He blessed us with, I will count fruits over and over and over again!

The hues of colors emitting  radiance, the peppy crunch to a bite, the scrumptious taste and best of all the burst of energy you feel afterwards. This is aside the wonderful vitamins it's full of for our bodies vitality and nourishment. Imagine a candy being sooo yummy and also soooo good for us! The best of both worlds! And ultimately they help us fight diseases.

God is sooo thoughtful that He knew we would have sugar cravings and already provided us with ready to eat delights(Biko wash first o......before you'll just sink your teeth in now and quote Ebun). But as usual and as we preach at F.i.t.T.r.i.x, moderation is very very key in achieving over all wellness. Why don't, because we like make up, use up the Mac powder all at once and our rouge lipstick? OR pour all the perfs you have in a bucket and bathe with it cos you have some event! Put am all at once and you go resemble ayamatanga and choke everyone!

Same as our beloved fruities.....as awesome as they are they really should also be done in moderation. Let's take an apple for example- an average size is about 75kcals, so when you eat more than 2 at a time as a snack then you really are shooting your self in the leg. Or watermelon, which is about 138 kcals for that average 100 Naira chunk that they sell around.

So let's paint 2 scenarios of some one trying to be healthy but probably getting it all wrong and another person who lives to eat.....

1- You have brekkie of coffee + skim milk + sweetener (90 kcals), then you really start to get hungry like 11ish and send your office assistant to buy boiled corn and fruits. So you now have another "healthy" lunch of TFCs topper salad, which ideally is about 380kcals but you add the cream as you are consoling yourself for not having brekkie, hence adding anor 185 kcals per cream(2)+diet coke. At 3pm you remember your goodies bought for you earlier and munch on 3 corns + half a coconut (620 kcals) and 2 apples (150 kcals). Then you get home late, famished and knackered and because in your minds eye you only had "snacks" all day and a measerly salad, you reward yourself with a meal with full options at 9pm of fried rice and grilled chicken with vegetable salad with cream (1,300 kcals). So we are trying to be healthy but we are getting it twisted and go overboard cos in our minds eye corn,coconut and apple have negligible calories, hence consuming a total of 2,910. And topping it up with the sweetener in your diet coke and coffee has made your insulin go up and body store fat!

2.These other people don't give a hoot and buy 100 Naira puff puff (800kcals) for brekkie, then do plantain chips in between meals (400kcals), then eat oily Ghana high of rice, beans and plantain + 3 brokotos (1680kcals), then needs his fruits and munches on a fruit bowl of about 250kcals then dinner of poundy and co dey wait am for house. He has easily done 1,200kcals for dinner and in the grande total a whooping *drumroll*= 4330 kcals!
And 3,500 kcals = 1 kg............so do the math!
My overall point is fruits are awesome but also have calories too, hence should be treated with caution. Eating 10 apples is 750kcals, but you will enjoy the full benefits  including healthy weight loss if you learn how to apportion your meals and fruits too.

I know I will have some people scrunch up their nose in disgust at the 2 scenarios, claiming they don't eat at all but still not loosing weight! Lemme paint your scenario :D.....you know na!
You skip brekkie then have dry salad for lunch. You are starving but you discipline your self and chew on 2 apples. On your way home in traffic you do a diet coke and when you get home you take bland eko! Helllloooo you can't "shed" that weight too on top all that suffering! Kai ndo ooo!! You have missed brekkie, hence brought your metabolism to ground 0 and then the rest of the day too few calories then the diet coke would up your insulin - more fat storage! Your total from the above can't be more than 350- 500kcals! Haba! The best you'll get is a gaunt face and neck bones,due to body water loss, and just as you are expecting more results, you start to crave! Yawa!

At F.i.t.T.r.i.x we teach you.....school you....love you....motivate you to learn how to create a lifestyle for nutrition and exercise which will help you loose the weight and keep it off forever......and you will feel great and look awesome!

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